[TRLog] 2 Port Serial Card

[Tree N6TR]

> I am going to attempt to add a 2 port serial card to my
> IBM 100 mhz pentium machine.  I currently have an internal
> modem on com1 and a soundblaster (both came with machine).
> These are the only two feature cards installed.  I noticed
> last nite that Win 95 shows that I have 3 com ports.  There
> are only two physical connections so I don't really understand
> this.  I have read some of the past posts on adding serial
> cards and hope to avoid some of the pitfalls but need some info.
> The card I'm going to buy has jumper selectable irq's and com
> ports (ie.. Com 3, Com 4, Com 5...).  How should I set up the
> card and then what do I need to do in Win 95 to make this thing
> work the first time?  The vendor said it comes with a disk for
> configuration also.

Well, I can't help you much with teh win-95 setups - I haven't
taken the bandwidth to understand it.  However, the IRQ question
is easy - TR doesn't care what you do with the IRQs.

Tree

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